The challenge of protecting critical data

How senior executives can identify their “crown jewels” in a mountain of sensitive enterprise data.

Most C-suite executives are keenly aware that business is driven
by data, and that the exponential growth of enterprise data,
which has already turned the curve at the end of the hockey
stick, will continue its sharp, upward trajectory unabated.
Every corner of the organization—from human resources, to
operations, to marketing—is generating, acquiring, processing,
storing and sharing more data every day.

So, there is an assumption in the C-suite that, generally speaking,
the massive volume of data that resides in—or flows
through—the enterprise is valuable, or at least useful. There is
also an expectation among many organizations that current technologies
and compliance measures can be scaled to keep pace
with exploding data volume to keep the enterprise secure.